HOUSNAT Slow Cooker, 10 in 1 Programmable Pressure Cooker, 304 Stainless Steel Rice Cookers, Yogurt Maker, 6 QT Sous Vide, Delay Start, Adjustable Temp& Digital Time for Large Families or Entertaining

I am thrilled! Cooker arrived packaged very well and whoever dropped the box on it’s corner did not succeed in damaging the cooker. This is the prettiest cooker I have ever owned! The stainless steel interior pot is a game changer and I feel better knowing I am cooking healthier and without dangerous chemicals from my old ceramic cookers. I cooked a 3 1/2 pound roast and all its accompaniment vegetables and gravy to tender succulence in 4 hours on the high setting. I was expecting it to take around 6 hours or more having read a few other reviews. I am so glad I checked my roast early because it was at a full rolling boil without problem. My cooker cooked the food thoroughly and perfectly. I read all instructions prior to use and, in addition, watched several video reviews and tutorials on YouTube so I was familiar with the process before beginning. Cooking with this was beautiful and clean up left the pot looking brand new easily! I am, thus far, delighted with this multi-cooker! (I didn’t get a photo of the roast before it was devoured.) 🙄

We have always had crockpots with porcelain pots but they tend to crack and/or chip so we never really cared for those. Then there are the pots that have the "non-stick" coatings but you can scratch those. Now there's concern that these scratches allow the non stick coating to impregnate the food and that it is unhealthy. So we wanted a crockpot with a stainless steel pot. That was extremely hard to find until we came across this HOUSNAT Multi Cooker. We ordered it just because it had a stainless steel pot for cooking. And are we glad we did. Following the directions in the recipe book that came with the cooker has made it easy to prepare chicken, rice and a roast. We've used it to bake, steam and stew. Minor adjustments were required but the times listed in the instruction manual/recipe book were very close which made adjusting very easy and straight forward. We highly recommend this multi cooker for anyone wanting to move away from the traditional porcelain pot or coated cooking surface.

I do like this product I do feel though it doesn’t heat of proportional. For example the left side of my food is always burning for some reason for the last 4 meals I have made. All on the same side and I think maybe it just doesn’t heat up right. The lid is great and the cook time is super nice! The little rack it comes with for steaming feels cheap but the rest is night and sturdy. I really like the way it fits. It is large but I wanted it to be. It’s great for bigger dinners.

I used this cooker yesterday for the first time, and love it so far. My only hesitation in buying this cooker was that reviewers said the slow cook function on low setting didn't get hot enough. But otherwise, I liked everything else about it. I especially like that the labels on the buttons are big and easy to read, for old eyes. The stainless inner pot is very nice, so smooth it's slippery, which is great for cooking/searing. I used the sear function to cook onions for the soup I'm making and I added a few other things, then the liquid broth. I think the vent hole in the lid is too big (lets too much heat out), so I twisted up a small piece of foil and stuck it in there. I can remove it to vent the soup, as needed. So if you slow cook on low setting in this pot, try plugging up that vent hole. Maybe that will retain some of the heat so you can successfully "slow cook" on the low setting. I'm not convinced yet that the slow cook high setting is hot enough, either. I'm done adding stuff to the pot now so it will stay closed and hopefully the temp can reach its max and start bubbling. Water boils at 212 degrees, but this hasn't bubbled or boiled yet. As far as the included manual and recipe book: manual is minimally helpful. Recipes look interesting, but prepare to see lots of typos.Next Day Update: A Google search will tell you that typically the Slow Cook LOW setting is about 200 deg. F and the HIGH setting is around 300 deg. F. So, using that info, I was looking through the manual and, based on which functions allow you to adjust the temperatures, I will use the Sear, Roast, or Bake functions for slow cook HIGH because I can adjust the temp. to 300 deg., give or take a few. For slow cook LOW I will use the Stew function and I can set the temp to 200 deg., give or take a few. My first time using the cooker yesterday, I had a full pot of densely packed soup and after a couple hours it wasn't hot. I took the temp and it ranged from 191 to 194, clearly not high enough to bubble. So I switched it back to Sear/Saute to get it going and it finally was ready in less than an hour. But this entire soup process on the Slow Cook function went on for over 3 hours, and still didn't get hot!! The Slow Cook function is faulty by design and the max temperatures need to be adjusted upwards. I don't know if this cooker heats just from the bottom or from the bottom and sides, but you have to get some heat going in this thing--by some means--to get the food cooked.26 August update: Making chicken taco soup. Can't get this thing to "simmer," can't adjust the temperature to anything between 210 and 248 degrees. None of the functions will let you adjust to a temp within that range. This is really annoying. The Steam function is 212 but it is an aggressive boil, not a simmer. So all afternoon I've been going between agressive boiling on Stew or Sear and it doing nothing on Slow Cook high (those default temperatures are not high enough to simmer). Both Slow Cook High and Low have automatic temperatures, so you can't adjust them. I hope the folks at Housnat read these reviews and will fix the Slow Cook temperatures and make all the functions' temperatures fully adjustable. It's such a nice looking cooker, but this inability to get a simmer is really annoying. How do you cook anything that needs to simmer or slow cook?